A double intramolecular ring metalation: formation, spectroscopic

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factors should most favor formation of 2 with t-BUS-,since Ph4As+salt of the [ ( ~ - s ) ( ~ - S ~ - t - B u ) F e ~ion ( c o(3). ) ~ The ]it is the strongest reductant of the thiolates examined. compound is air-stable for brief periods in the solid state Compound 3 is stable both in solution as well as in the and is stable in solution in aprotic solvents room temsolid state, differing from 2 in the former respect; thus it perature for prolonged periods in the absence of oxygen. may prove to be an even more convenient precursor to the The crystal structure of the Ph4As+salt of 3 shows that [ ( ~ - S ) ~ F e ~ ( cdianion o ) ~ ] ~than 2 and a useful reagent for the anion contains a (p-S),Fe,(CO), unit linked via a dicluster syntheses. sulfide bond tQ a t-BUSunit in a pseudoequatorid fashion2I (e-linkedg). Selected distances and angles are given in Acknowledgment. This research was supported by Figure 1. The (p-S)2Fe(CO)6unit has a conformation grants similar to that in ( F ( - S ~ ) F ~ ~ ( C ( FOL) -~E, ~ ~S ) ~ F ~ ~ ( C O ) ~ , ~from ~ the US.Department of Agriculture Competitive Research Grants Office (82-CRCR-1-1123and 86( F - R S ) ( F - R H ~ S ) F ~ ~ ( C[Fe4S4(C0)12]2-,15 O)~,~ and ( F CRCR-1-2033). PhS)Fe2(CO)6(~-S2)Fez(C0)6(~-sPh),'6 with a dihedral angle of 88.91' between the FeS2 planes. Although a Supplementary Material Available: Tables of atomic conumber of examples of both ~ 7 and ~ q2-coordinatedZ5 - ~ ~ ordinates, interatomic distances and angles, and thermal parameters (5 pages); a listing of calculated and observed structure persulfide units are now known, there appear to be only factors (17 pages). Ordering information is given on any current two crystallographically characterized examples of bridging masthead page. persulfides analogous to that in 3, namely, ([(C,H5)Cr(NO)]2(~-S-t-Bu)(~-S2-t-B~))26 (4) and L M O ~ ( N T O ~ ) ~ ( S ~ P (OEt)2)2S(02CMe)(SSEt)]27 (5). The S-S bonds in 4 and 5, at 2.076 (4) and 2.068 (2) A, respectively, are only marginally shorter than that in 3, and the M-S-M angles A Double Intramolecular Ring Metalation: Formation, at the bridging persulfide are ca. 10' (4) and 2' ( 5 ) larger Spectroscopic Characterization, and Molecular than that in 3. As found for 2, the iron bonds to the Structure of (C,Me,( CH,),)Ta( H),( PMe,), disulfide sulfur (S2) in 3 are actually 0.03-0.04 A shorter than those to the bridging sulfide (Sl). The disulfide bond Steven T. Carter," William Clegg,lb (S2-S3) in 3 is ca. 0.05 A shorter than in 2, approaching Vernon C. Terence P. Kee,lc and a normal S-S single bond value2' (as seen in 426). This is Robert D. SannerlaVd not, however, accompanied by a compensating increase in Department of Chemistry the 'honbonded" S 1 4 2 distance, which is actually 0.04 George M. Bateman Physical Sciences Centre A less in 3 than in 2 and is thus well within the range Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287 reported for S-S bonding interactions.28 The long S2-S3 Department of Chemistry and short S1.432 distances in 3 are consistent with a deUniversity Science Laboratories, South Road localized bonding description involving all three sulfur Durham DH1 3LE, U.K., and atoms, as originally suggested for 215 and supported by Department of Inorganic Chemistry, The University recent theoretical c a l c ~ l a t i o n s . ~ ~ Newcastle upon Tyne NE 1 7RU, U.K. Compound 3 must arise by nucJeophilic attack of RSon the bridging S22-unit of 1 (Scheme I, reaction l), in a Received August 19, 1988 reaction analogous to that proposed4 for the reaction of hydride and alkyllithium reagents with 1 to produce [ ( F Summary: Treatment of (C,Me,)TaCI, with sodium S)(p-SH)Fe,(CO),]- and [ ( F - S ) ( ~ - S R ) F ~ ~ ( C O respec)~]-, amalgam in THF solution containing PMe, gives rise to the tively. We postulate that 3 is not stable for most thiolates in which two compound (C,Me,(CH2)2)Ta(H)2(PMe3)2 (l), and spontaneously dimerizes to form 2, presumably via ring methyl C-H bonds have been cleaved. NMR and intermediate 4, with elimination of RSSR as shown in X-ray crystallographic studies show that the abstracted Scheme I, reaction 2. The fact that the reaction stops at hydrogens remain bound to the metal and the resulting 3 for R = t-Bu must be due to steric hindrance of nuring methylene groups are located on adjacent ringcleophilic attack by a second molecule of 3; electronic (20) (a) Freyberg, D. P.; Mockler, G. M.; Sinn, E. J. Chem. SOC., Dalton Trans. 1976,447. (b) Corfield, P. W. R.; Doedens, R. J.; Ibers, J. A. Znorg. Chem. 1967, 6, 197. (21) Nomenclature is that of Shaver, A.; Fitzpatrick, P. J.; Steliou, K.: Butler. I. S. J. Am. Chem. SOC.1979. 101. 1313. '(22) Wei, C.-H.; Dahl, L. F. Znorg. Chem. 1965, 4, 1. (23) Dahl, L. F.; Wei, C.-H. Znorg. Chem. 1963, 2, 328. (24) (a) Halbert, T. R.; Pan, W. H.; Stiefel, E. I. J. Am. Chem. SOC. 1983, 105, 5476. (b) Bhattacharya, S. N.; Senoff, C. V.; Walker, F. S. Inorg. Chim. Acta 1980,44, L273. (c) Giannotti, C.; Merle, G. J. Organomet. Chem. 1976, 113, 45. (d) Giolando, D. M.; Rauchfuss, T. B.; Rheingold, A. L.; Wilson, S. R. Oganometallics 1987,6,667. (e) Shaver, A.; Hartgerink, J.; Lai, R. D.; Bird, P.; Ansari, N. Organometallics 1983, 2, 938. (25) (a) Leonard, K.; Plute, K.; Haltiwanger, R. C.; Rakowski-Dubois, M. Inorg. Chem. 1979, 18, 3246. (b) Clark, G. R.; Russell, D. R. J. Organomet. Chem. 1979,173, 377. (c) Evans, S. V.; Legzdins, P.; Rettig, S. J.; Shchez, L.; Trotter, J. Organometallics 1987,6, 7. (d) Legzdins, P.; Slnchez, L. J. Am. Chem. SOC.1985,107, 5525. (26) Eremenko, I. L.; Pasynskii, A. A.; Kalinnikov, V. T.; Struchkov, Y. T.; Aleksandrov, G. G. Inorg. Chim. Acta 1981, 52, 107. (27) Noble, M. E.; Williams, D. E. Inorg. Chem. 1988, 27, 749. (28) E.g., S8,2.037 (5) A: Abrahams, S. C. Acta Crystallogr. 1955,8, 2.007 (5) A: ref 21. 661. (p-S2)Fe2(CO)G, (29) (a) Pauling, L. The Nature of the Chemical Bond; Cornel1 University Press: Ithaca, NY, 1960; p 260. (b) Dance, I. G.; Wedd, A. G.; Boyd, I. W. Aust. J. Chem. 1978, 31, 519. (30) DeKock, R. L., private communication.

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carbon atoms, being best described as sp2, olefin-type CH, groups. Migration of the metal-bound hydrogens back to the C,Me,(CH,), ligand is shown by the reaction of 1 with CO affording (C,Me,)Ta(C0)2(PMe3)2.

The importance of the pentamethylcyclopentadienyl ligand (v5-C5Me5or Cp*) in contemporary organometallic chemistry coupled with recent interest in C-H activation2 and the reactivity of metal-hydrocarbyl fragments3has led (1) (a) Arizona State University. (b) University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. (c) University of Durham, U.K. (d) Present address: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550. (2) For recent reviews see: (a) Crabtree, R. H. Chem. rev. 1985, 85, 245. (b) Bergman, R. G. Science (Washington, DE.)1984,223,902. (c) Rothwell, I. P. Polyhedron 1985,4, 177. (d) Watson, P. L.; Parshall, G. W. Acc. Chem. Res. 1985, 18, 51. (3) (a) Thompson, M. E.; Baxter, M. B.; Bulls, A. R.; Burger, B. J.; Nolan, C. N.; Santarsiero, B. D.; Schaefer, W. P.; Bercaw, J. E. J. Am. Chem. SOC.1987,109,203. (b) Bruno, J. W.; Smith, G. M.; Marks, T. J.; Fair, C. K.; Schultz, A. J.; Williams, J. M. J. Am. Chem. SOC.1986, 108, 40. (c) Bulls, A. R.; Schaefer, W. P.; Serfas, M.; Bercaw, J. E. Organometallics 1987, 6, 1219. (d) Fendrick, C. M.; Marks, T. J. J. Am. Chem. SOC.1986, 108, 425. (e) Smith, G. M.; Carpenter, J. D.; Marks, T. J. J. Am. Chem. SOC.1986, 108, 6805. (f) Bruno, J. W.; Marks, T. J.; Morss, L. R. J . Am. Chem. SOC.1983, 105, 6824.

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to reports of several examples of ring-metalated species, 0 P which arise via intramolecular insertion of a ring-attached CI metal atom into the C-H bond of a ring methyl substituent.4 Several examples of hydrogen abstraction from one methyl group to give $1,2,3,4-tetramethylfulvene (or v5,$-C5Me4CH2)complexes have been reported. These include Cp* ($-C5Me4CH2)TiMe which results from the thermal decomposition of c ~ * , T i M e , , ~Cp*(@C5Me4CH2)WH which forms during photolysis of Cp*,WH2,6 Cp*($-C5Me4CH2)TiH,observed in solutions of Cp*, Ti,7and C P * ( ~ ~ , ~ ' - C ~ M ~ ~ C H ~ formed )H~CH~C~H~ as an intermediate in the thermal decomposition of Figure 1. Molecular structure with thermal ellipsoids at 40% C P * ~ H ~ ( C H ~ CHowever, ~ H ~ ) ~ the . ~ ~abstraction of a hyprobability level (spheres of arbitrary radius for H atoms). Sedrogen from a second methyl substituent to give a double lected distances (A): Ta-P(l), 2.567 (1);Ta-P(2), 2.568 (1); Ta-H, 1.74 (4); Ta-C(31), 2.569 (5);Ta-C(32), 2.409 (4); Ta-C(33), 2.172 ring-metalated product has been observed on only rare (3), Ta-C(36);, 2.394 (4); C(31)C(32), 1.407 (5); C(32)4(33), 1.445 occasions.6is In these cases, the abstracted hydrogens do (5); C(33)-C(33'), 1.460 (8);C(31)-C(34), 1.502 (8); C(32)-C(35), not remain bound to the metal and the resultant ring 1.503 (6); C(33)-C(36), 1.429 (6). C(33') is related t o C(33) by system has not been structurally characterized. the mirror plane. Here, we wish to report that the reductive activation of the tantalum atom in Cp*TaCl., by sodium amalgam in the complex multiplets at 6 1.30 (2 H, Ha) and 2.66 ppm (2 H, presence of trimethylphosphine leads to the double ringHb) whose assignments were facilitated by difference NOE metalated compound (C5Me3(CH2)2)Ta(H)2(PMe3)z (1) in experiments.l' The metal-bound hydrides occupy which the abstracted hydrogens are retained within the equivalent solution environments and are located at 6 2.64 coordination sphere of the metal. Thus, Cp*TaC14 (1.1 ppm (2 H, dd, 'JpH = 55.9,25.7 Hz). Finally, two doublets mmol), PMe3 (5.7 mmol), and Na/Hg (4.4 mmol of 0.5% a t 6 1.14 and 1.32 ppm (both 9 H, 2JpH= 7.0 Hz) are amalgam) were combined in 25 mL of THF. After the present for the inequivalent phosphine ligands. Thus, the mixture was stirred under argon for 22 h at room tem'H NMR data are consistent with a ring system of the form perature, the solvent was removed in vacuo and the residue C5Me3(CH& with two equivalent methylene groups. extracted with several portions of petroleum ether. This However, it does not distinguish between methylene groups solution was concentrated and slowly cooled to -78 "C to on adjacent (vicinal) or nonadjacent ring-carbon atoms. obtain the air- and moisture-sensitive product 1 in 65% This feature of the molecule has been established by a yield. Although seldom required, further purification is single-crystal X-ray study: the methylene groups are on Torr). 1 has been possible by sublimation (75 OC; 5 X adjacent ring-carbon atoms. characterizedg by elemental analysis, IR and NMR specA number of structures may be proposed to account for troscopies, mass spectrometry, and a single-crystal X-ray the ring a-bonding and the ring-to-metal interactions. structure determination. Close analysis of a IH NMR Structure A may be described as a fused q4-butadiene/ spectrum on the dried, crude petroleum ether extract showed that 1 and a second species are formed in the ratio 5:l and constitute >90% of the petroleum ether soluble Cp*-containing products (eq 1). The minor component is readily identified as the phosphine-metalated species A B C D Cp*Ta(PMe3)(H)2(~2-CHPMez) (2) which has been described previously.1° v3-allyl system, B and C are equivalent resonance forms of an q7-heptatrienyl anion, and D is a normal cyclopentadienyl ring with two additional sp3-type methylene bridges to the metal atom. Of these possible structures, NMR and the X-ray data indicate that structure A is the best representation, although a contribution from the two resonance forms B and C cannot be ruled out. 1 2 k20%1 The chemically equivalent methylene carbon atoms are The 'H NMR of 1 in C6D6shows two singlets assigned located a t 6 45.0 ppm in the 13C NMR spectrum with a to the ring methyl groups at 6 1.97 (6 H, C&e2Me(CH2)2) one-bond C-H coupling constant of 151.1 Hz.', This value and 1.86 ppm (3 H, C,Me&fe(CH,),). The diastereotopic is more consistent with the sp2-hybridized carbon atoms hydrogens of the equivalent methylene groups exhibit of A, B, or C (typically 150-160 Hz13). Furthermore, broad-band 31Pdecoupling of the methylenic hydrogens reveals a geminal 'JHH coupling constant of 2.7 Hz,14in (4) We use the term "ringmetalated" in this paper to describe a bonding interaction involving the metal atom and a ring carbon plus its attendant hydrocarbon substituent. (5) McDade, C.; Green, J. C.; Bercaw, J. E. Organometallics 1982, I , 1629. (6) Cloke, F. G. N.; Green, J. C.; Green, M. L. H.; Morley, C. P. J . Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun. 1985, 945. (7) Bercaw, J. E. J. Am. Chem. SOC.1974, 96, 5087. (8) Pattiasina, J. W.; Hissink, C. E.; de Boer, J. L.; Meetsma, A.; Teuben, J. H. J. Am. Chem. SOC.1985,107, 7758. (9) (a) Anal. Calcd for C1&P2Ta: C, 41.03; H, 7.12. Found: C, 40.99; H, 7.16. (b) IR (Nujol): v(Ta-H) = 1635 (s, bd) cm-'. (c) Mass m / e 468; [(C5Me3(CH2),)spectrum: [ (C5Me3(CH2)2)Ta(H)2(PMe3)z]*, Ta(PMe&]+, m / e 466; [(C5Me3(CH,),)Ta(PMe3)]+,m / e 390. (IO) Kee, T. P.; Gibson, V. C.; Clegg, W. J . Organomet. Chem. 1987, 325, C14.

(11)Difference NOE (360 MHz, CBD6):irradiation of the signal at 6 1.97 ppm (C&e2Me(CH2)z) leads to considerable enhancement (3.4%) of the signal at 6 2.66 ppm and has no detectable effect on the signal at 6 1.30 ppm. Thus, the multiplet a t 6 2.66 ppm is assigned to the exoenantiotopic hydrogens, Hb. (12) Quite similar 'JcH coupling constants have been reported for Cp*(CSMe4CH2)TiMe(150 Hz), Cp*(C5Me4CH2)WH(151.3 Hz), Cp*(C,Me3(CH2),)W (152 Hz), and Cp*(C5Me3(CH2)2)Ti(160 Hz). (13) Stothers, J. B. Carbon-13 N M R Spectroscopy; Academic Press: New York, 1972; p 333. (14) Geminal HH coupling constants of 1.8 and 4.4 Hz have been reported for Cp*(C5Me3(CH2)z)W and Cp*(CSMe3(CH2)2)Ti, respectively. See ref 5 and 7.

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close agreement with values expected for geminal hydrogen q3-allyl system would seem most appropriate. atoms attached to sp2-hybridized carbon (typically 0-3 Hz; A potentially useful feature of 1 is the retention of the abstracted ring hydrogens within the metal coordination cf. 12-15 Hz for geminal hydrogens attached to sp3-hybridized carbon15). Finally, an olefinic C-H stretching sphere, thus offering an opportunity to exploit reversible metal-to-ring hydrogen migrations for the generation of band at 3055 cm-l is seen in the infrared spectrum (Nujol mull).l6 coordinatively unsaturated, electron-rich metal fragments of tantalum. For example, the migration of both metal The crystal structure of (C5Me3(CH2)2)Ta(H)z(PMe3)2 has been determined in the orthorhombic space group hydride hydrogens to the C5Me3(CH2)2 ligand is demonPrima." The molecule is located on the mirror plane that strated by the reaction of an inert solvent solution of 1 with contains the two phosphorus atoms and the tantalum atom carbon monoxide resulting in the formation of Cp*Taand bisects the five-membered ring between the methylene (PMe,),(CO), (70% by lH NMR), which has been chargroups (Figure 1). Important distances are shown in the acterized by comparison with data from an authentic figure caption. The tantalum atom is clearly displaced sample.25 Reactivity studies are presently being extended to other substrate molecules, in addition to assessing the away from C(31) toward the C(33)-C(33') edge (0.44 A mechanism of formation and interrelationship of the taufrom the ring centroid as determined by a normal from the tomers 1 and 2. ring plane through the metal atom), presumably due to the additional bqnding interactions between the metal atom Acknowledgment. We wish to thank the Science and and the methylene carbon atoms C(36) and C(36'). The Engineering Research Council (U.K.) for grants (to V.C.G. Ta-C(36) distance is more than 1 A shorter than the and W.C.) and a studentship (T.P.K.). R.D.S. acknowlmetal-methyl distance found in (q5-C5Me5)Ta comedges support from the faculty grant-in-aid program at p o u n d ~ .The ~ ~ methylene carbon atoms, which are closer Arizona State. We are grateful to Dr. D. Reed for use of to the metal atom partially by virtue of the 0.44 A ring the Edinburgh high-field NMR facility. displacement, are also bent below the plane of the ring by 33.4O. Similar bending of a methylene group toward a Supplementary Material Available: High-field NMR data metal atom has been observed in the molecular structures for compound 1 and tables of positional and anisotropic thermal of related fulvene c o m p l e x e ~ .The ~ ~ inter ~ ~ ring-carbon parameters and bond lengths and angles (7 pages); a listing of observed and calculated structure factors (12 pages). Ordering distance C(31)-C(32) is short a t 1.407 (5) A, while Cinformation is given on any current masthead page. (33)-C(33') is relatively elongated at 1.460 (8) A. Finally, the Wing)-C(methy1ene) distances are 1.429 (6) A, values consistent with coordinated double bonds. Thus, the de(25) Mayer, J. M.; Bercaw, J. E. J. Am. Chem. SOC.1982, 104,2157. scription of the C5Me3(CHJ2ligand as an q4-butadiene/ (15) Emsley, J. W.; Feeney, J.; Sutcliffe, L. H. High Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; Pergamon Press: New York, 1966; p 710. (16) A band at 3040 cm-' was observed for Cp*(C5Me4CHz)TiMe.See ref 4. (17) Crystallographic data: CleH3SPzTa,M, = 468.3, orthorhombic, h m a , a = 11.2309 (6) A, b = 11.9809 (5) A, c = 14.4881 (7) A, V = 1949.5 (2) A3, and 2 = 4, D d d = 1.595 g cm". Data were collected on a Siemens AED2 diffractometer in w/8 scan mode, with Mo Ka radiation (A = 0.71073&, 28, = 60', and on-line profile fitting;'& T = 295 K. A total of 8915 reflections (three equivalent sets) were corrected for Lorentz and polarization effects, absorption (p = 5.73 mm-', crystal size 0.25 X 0.3 X 0.3 mm, transmission 0.11-0.16), and intensity drift (ca. 5%) of three standards, to give 2972 unique reflections, 2635 with F > 4u,(F) (ucfrom counting statistics only, R,,t = 0.019). The structure was solved by heavy-atom methods and refined by blocked-cascade least squares on F with all non-hydrogen atoms anisotropic. Methyl H atoms were constrained to give C-H = 0.96 A and H-C-H = 109.5'; CH, and tantalumbound H were freely refined; U(H) = 1.2U (C) except for the freely refined isotropic U for the hydrides.lSb R e s h a l s of R = 0.0253, R, = 0.0193, and S = 0.97 were obtained, with weighting'" w-l = u:(F) 9 29G 8G2- 23s 19Sz - 65GS, where G = FJF- and S = sin 8/sin Om,, for 116 refined parameters. (18) (a) Clegg, W. Acta Crystallogr., Sect. A 1981, 37,22. (b) Sheldriek, G. M. SHELXTL, an integrated system for solving, refining, and displaying crystal structures from diffraction data, Revision 5; University of Gottingen: Gottingen, Germany, 1985. (c) Hong, W.; Robertson, B. E. Structure and Statistics in Crystallography, Wilson, A. J. C., Ed.; Adenine Press: New York, 1985; p 125. (19) In normal Cp*Ta complexes the ring-methyl carbon atoms are in excess of 3.5 A from the metal atom as calculated from the crystalloEraDhic data eiven in the followine references: (a) CD*TaTCHCMe3)(CzH;)(PMe3): Schultz, A. J.; & o m , R. K.; Williams,j. M.; Schrock, R. R. J. Am. Chem. SOC.1981, 103, 1691. (b) Cp*TaCl,(PhCCPh): Smith, G.; Schrock, R. R.; Churchill, M. R.; Youngs, W. J. Inorg. Chem. 1981, 20, 387. (c) Mayer, J. M.; Wolczanski, P. T.; Santarsiero, B. D.; Olson, W. A.; Bercaw, J. E. Inorg. Chem. 1983,22,1149. (20) Andrianov, V. G.; Struchkov, Y. T. Zh. Strukt. Khim. 1977,8,318. (21) Behrens, U. J. Organomet. Chem. 1979, 182, 89. (22) Bandy, J. A.; Mtetwa, V. S. B.; Prout, K.; Green, J. C.; Davies, C. E.; Green, M. L. H.; Hazel, N. J.; Izquierdo, A.; Martin-polo, J. J. J. Chem. SOC.,Dalton Trans. 1986, 2037. (23) (a) Koch, 0.;Edelmann, F.; Behrens, U. Chem. Ber. 1982, 115, 1313. (b) Lubke, B.; Edelmann, F.; Behrens, U. Chem. Ber. 1983, 116, 11. (24) Schock, L. E.; Brock, C. P.; Marks, T. J. Organometallics 1987, 6,232.

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The First Salt- and Solvent-Free Monocyclopentadienyl Lanthanide Dlalkyl Complex. X-ray Structure Determinations of La(q5-C,Me,)[CH(SIMe,),], and of Its Tetrahydrofuran Adduct: Compounds Containing Agostic SI-C Bonds Harry van der Heljden and Colin J. Schaverien" Koninklijke/Shell Laboratorium Amsterdam (Shell Research B. V.), Postbus 3003 1003 AA Amsterdam, The Netherlands

A. Guy Orpen Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Bristol Bristol, BS8 lTS, U.K. Received September 6, 1988

Summary: The synthesis and single-crystal X-ray structure determinations of the first salt- and solvent-free monocyclopentadienyl lanthanide alkyl complex La($C,Me,){CH(SiMe,),), and of its THF adduct precursor are reported. These complexes contain unusual agostic Si-C bonds that facilitate stabilization of the unsaturated lanthanum center. We also report a novel and simple chemical method to remove coordinated THF from highly reactive, electrophilic organolanthanide complexes.

Olefin polymerization is of considerable commercial interest. We have previously reported1 the synthesis, characterization, and molecular structures of some mo(1) Van der Heijden, H.; Pasman, p.; de Boer, E. J. M.; Schaverien, C. J.; Orpen, A. G., submitted for publication in Organometallics.

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